T-Platforms Expands Its Market Presence in the CIS Countries

T-Platforms Group, Russia’s largest supercomputer vendor, and SmartCom, a Kazakh system integrator, have signed a partnership agreement on supplying HPC solutions to the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyzstan.

According to the agreement, SmartCom becomes T-Platforms` authorized partner, jointly implementing HPC projects and providing comprehensive technical support to the customers in the regions.

"Partnership with SmartCom will let us expand our market presence in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, promoting our supercomputer technology in these republics and improving customer service", said Mikhail Kozhevnikov, T-Platforms VP, Worldwide Sales.

The partners will offer Kazakh and Kirgiz customers T-Platforms' hardware/software HPC solutions, including T-Blade family blade-systems, GPU-based hybrid solutions, personal supercomputers, and Clustrx® software stack that includes an operating system and management/monitoring tools for HPC site resources.

SmartCom is to carry Blade2 blade-platform, the flagship T-Platforms' product, designed for building petascale HPC systems. T-Blade2 is used as the building block of the supercomputer “Lomonosov”, Eastern Europe’s most powerful HPC system, installed at Moscow State University.

Partnership with SmartCom has become the next step in T-Platforms strategy of expanding its geographical presence and international background. The year 2009 was marked with signing a number of framework agreements with several international HPC centers and entering the Indian market through a partnership agreement with Digital Waves, an Indian system integrator.